PAUL GREENBERG comments as the GOP field narrows.

LOCKHEED MARTIN'S Samarai drone to debut at upcoming conference. Interesting looking little bugger.

MICHELE BACHMANN and the submissive question. I suspect the question will continue to dog her, but I also don't believe that President Bachmann's first name will be Marcus.

'DOOMSDAY' DEFENSE CUTS loom large for deficit committee. "For committee members such as Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., the threat of Pentagon cuts is an incentive to come up with $1.5 trillion in savings over a decade. Failure would have brutal implications for hundreds of thousands workers back home." It will be interesting to watch Patty Murray. Will she be loyal to her state or her party?

THOMAS SOWELL: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race:

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

Read it all.

FROM MY EMAIL:

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

I don't know about the statistics, but I like the conclusion.

MAYBE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are ready to believe that liberal policies always succeed unless they’re unlucky and that conservative policies always fail unless good luck intervenes. That could happen. The alternative is that Obama is about to become a one-term president.

OBAMA TO CARMAKERS: You Can't Just Make Money on SUVs and Trucks. Translation from ObamaSpeak: "You can't make money."

OH, JEEZ. Another high-speed, er, low-speed car, er, fork-lift chase....

PERRY FOR PRESIDENT: thoughts from Andrew Klavan and Roger L. Simon.

DENIAL STILL ISN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT: Eugene Washingtion holds nose, walks among the unwashed masses in Iowa.

JAY LENO: "President Obama is off on his three-state bus tour this week. I believe the three states are Confusion, Delusion and Desperation." Let's see ... we now know the names of 53 of his 57 states. What are the names of the remaining four?

OBAMA: If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

DOES THIS MEAN THAT GOLD has to be returned to the country from which it was mined?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Liberal Psychoses. Read it all.

MARK STEYN: Another Cabinet Department to Abolish.

STILL VOTING 'PRESENT': How about I show you my economic plan next month?